Panasonic SL-SV500 Personal CD Player

To start this out, I LOVE this CD player. I had an old faithful one that lasted me about 3 years, but once it died, I decided that I wanted one which had both radio and CD playing capabilities. After checking out the market, I decided that this would be a good player to try. I haven't been disappointed yet. It's been at least a year and a half that I've had this player and it's passed all possible tests I could give it. It hardly skips and I really bounce it around a lot. Also, I've dropped it before (on to hard surfaces) and so far, I haven't had anything break on me. It has scratched up on the outside a bit, but after what I've done to it, I would expect it to be. The audio is great quality and I love it every time I use it. The only problem I would foresee is that I don't see it advertised a lot. Stores still carry them, but they don't seem to be advertised or on sale a lot. For the quality you get though, I wouldn't worry about it going on sales etc.